What is Web Hosting?

Put it like this: You have something to share online, don’t you need to upload it somewhere so that everyone can see? That’s what a web hosting does for you. You buy your web space and host your stuff and show off the world.

To create your WordPress site or just any website, you need a hosting to begin with.

In blogger (Blogspot), the hosting is provided by Google from your 15GB Free Google Web Space that it offers to every Gmail account. But there, the content is owned by Google and they can delete your content anytime.

That’s why you need to opt for Self-Hosted WordPress (Meaning you host your stuff, and not Google or any other 3rd Party), where the content is solely owned by you.

Best WordPress Web Hosting 2018:

Throughout the last year, I occasionally received queries from users like:

What is the Best Web Hosting?

Which hosting will be suitable for beginners?

Which hosting will be suitable for large businesses?

Which hosting is the cheapest one?

Which hosting company can support high traffic?

And so on…

Finally, I decided to proceed and write an exhaustive guide to help you choose the best web hosting. Note that this guide is written in a very concise way highlighting only the following:

The Available Plans and their features.

Why the Web Hosting is special and different from the others.

Which kind of users is the hosting suitable for.

So I am hoping this will help you to choose the hosting you want, comparing the price and the features with the others. I aimed at making it transparent.

Before I begin, here are a few things you may need to know about:

Firstly, You MUST have a Bank Account, an International Credit or Debit Card, and a verified PayPal account to buy these hosting services hassle-free. Otherwise, you cannot purchase them. Learn How to Create a Verified PayPal Account from Here. (India Only)

Secondly, I recommend you go through each host and their features in details thoroughly before purchasing. I have compared their plans side by side to help you go with whichever fits the best for you. Never compromise on your hosting.

Thirdly, take a look at an overview of all the hosting I will be discussing here in a nutshell. Afterwards, I will discuss and analyze each hosting compared to the others.

Dreamhost Web Hosting:

Dreamhost is one of the most professional web hosting providers that you can rely on if you are a medium or a large sized business or have a huge traffic to handle. It is truly the host of your dreams.

Frankly speaking, their costs are a bit hard to bear for newbies, especially those who are wanting to experiment with their website.

But for large businesses that have constant traffic and needs almost 100% uptime, hosting protection from hackers, and who needs a top class host for their site, this is the hosting provider they should choose.

They just have a simple and single plan with unlimited everything.

Annual Plan

Biennial Plan

Triennial Plan

Price (Per Month)

$9.95

$8.95

$7.95

Disk Space

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Bandwidth

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

No of Domains Hosted

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

MySQL Database

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Just go for Dreamhost if you need the best of all. They are the king of web hosts.

Hostgator Web Hosting:

Hostgator is one of the most popular web hosting companies. Probably you have heard of them earlier.

In a nutshell, Hostgator is the choice for people who are ready to shell out a bit of extra penny per month and in turn enjoy the benefits of all the standard web hosting features with no limits.

They have three packages, the hatchling plan for a beginner, the baby plan for those having some experience and the business plan for the bigger ones.

Hatchling Plan

Baby Plan

Business Plan

Price

$4.86 per month

$6.96 per month

$10.46 per month

Disk Space

Unmetered

Unmetered

Unmetered

Bandwidth

Unmetered

Unmetered

Unmetered

Domains Hosted

1

Unlimited

Unlimited

MySQL Databases

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

[Note: What is Unmetered Hosting for Hostgator?

Unmetered means you can use sufficient space as per your hosting requirement, and they will not charge you based on how much storage you used.

But let me remind you, it is not UNLIMITED. If you are a small and a medium scale business owner, or you will have just a personal account, then they have enough resources available to cover you up. But if you have a large business and need sufficient amount of space, then this might not be the most suitable option.

Don’t panic, hardly anyone can excess the resources that are given by them, as I said if you are using it for personal purposes you need not worry about it.]

Well, comparing the plans and the features, I find the baby plan more promising than the hatchling plan.

The characteristics of the hatchling plan are available with the other hosting for a lesser cost, but the baby plan rocks here. It gives almost all of the standard hosting features including your private SSL, Dedicated IP, etc. that you will miss in other hosting at that price range.

Interserver Web Hosting:

The very first thing you should know about it is HiTricks runs on Interserver! Yeah, that’s right! We are powered by Interserver Standard Web Hosting.

So why I liked it? Well, it’s because of their simplicity and outstanding support.

They do not have too many plans for you to choose, in fact, there is only one standard web hosting package, balanced and for all.

Check out their one and only Standard Web Hosting Plan from below.

Standard Web Hosting

Price

$5 per month

Disk Space

Unlimited

Bandwidth

Unlimited

Domains Hosted

Unlimited

MySQL Database

Unlimited

Their 24×7 Live Support is amazing, I have myself experienced. In addition to that, theyrespond back to your email within 1-2 hours, which is just great.

They also have a price lock guarantee, meaning the amount you pay per month for signing up will stay as your price per month forever for a lifetime. They won’t charge you more from second year onwards which many hosts do so.

So, don’t give it a second thought, just go for it.

Here’s a special offer for you, if you wanna join us on Interserver. Use the Coupon: INTERBLAST to get your first month hosting almost FREE OF COST. (1 penny)

Nice list. There are really good hosting companies listed above. I’ve used 3 of them in the past but I would add Rosehosting to the list too. I have 5 WordPress sites hosted on my RoseHosting account and I can say that they are one of the best hosting companies in the business.